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Baseball is the sport of the summer, and all that comes with it. Nights at the ballpark, whether minor league, major league or otherwise, are a signature of good weather and the desire to relish the opportunity to be outside with family and friends.<p>But not every summer day is a picturesque chance …

Opening Day is nigh. That means it's time for one thing, and one thing only.<p>For us to pretend like we know what's going to happen this season.<p>Ahead are predictions for Season No. 118 of the hit show, <i>Major League Baseball</i>. Lots of 'em. And they cover everything, from breakout players to statistical …

Brace yourselves, and educate yourselves.<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week ― days after President Donald Trump bragged about the size and effectiveness of his “Nuclear Button” (which doesn’t exist) ― that the agency will hold a public session on how to prepare for a …

There are sounds, for those who can hear them, of the preliminary and muffled drumbeats of war.<p>The decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem makes a war in Korea more likely. Not because there is any direct connection between the two, nor because it was a bad idea, recognizing as it did …

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the United States—now, it’s the disdain of American elites for the troubles of their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.<p>Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, Americans will celebrate their independence, the birth of a free nation. Leading the celebrations …

Canadian whisky is everywhere, though you might not know it. Masterfully crafted whiskey brands like New York’s Cooper Spirits, Sonoma County’s 35 Maple Street, and even the much lauded Whistlepig often source stock from whisky made in Canada — most often the famed Alberta Distillery. So, the …

TORONTO — As President Trump disrupts alliances across the map, nearly every level of government in Canada has taken on new duties in a quietly audacious campaign to cajole, contain and if necessary coerce the Americans.<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategy for managing Mr. Trump is unlike …

When the American inventor Samuel Morse visited 19th-century Naples, the birthplace of the modern pizza, he described that city’s preferred street food as “a piece of bread that had been taken reeking out of the sewer.”<p>A century later, a 20-year-old Greek named Sam Panopoulos found himself …

Aides say the president was eager to defy sanctimonious corporate critics and arrogant European leaders who lectured him about climate change.<p>Denigrated and dismissed on the world stage as an outsider, a menace, and a buffoon, <b>Donald Trump</b> took his revenge on Thursday, spurning the entire …

The Dodgers were having a bad game in an already bad season, but it was a typically nice evening to catch a baseball game in Chavez Ravine.<p>More than 36,000 fans packed into Dodgers Stadium to watch the home team take on the Philadelphia Phillies.<p>Miles away in a Simi Valley, Calif., courtroom, a …